People vs Bañez
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[G.R. No. 125849. January 20, 1999] THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. WILFREDO BAEZ y CABAEL, alias WILLY, accused-appellant. D E C I S I O N MENDOZA, J.: Before the Court for review is the decision,[1] dated August 9, 1996, of Branch 46 of the Regional Trial Court at Urdaneta, Pangasinan finding accused-appellant Wilfredo C. Baez guilty beyond reasonable doubt of parricide for the killing of his father, Bernardo P. Baez, and sentencing him to suffer the penalty of death. In addition, the trial court ordered accused-appellant to indemnify the heirs of his father in the amount of P50,000.00 and to pay the costs. The information[2] against accused-appellant, dated October 27, 1994, alleged That on or about the 14th day of August, 1994 at barangay San Vicente, municipality of Urdaneta, province of Pangasinan and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused with intent to kill and with treachery, did then and there, willfully, unlawfully and feloniously attack, assault and stab several times his father, Bernardo Baez y Padilla, with the use of a bladed weapon, hitting said victim in the vital parts of his body which caused his instantaneous death and to the damage and prejudice of his heirs. CONTRARY to Art. 246, Revised Penal Code. The facts of the case are as follows: Accused-appellant Wilfredo Baez was living in his parents house in Barangay San Vicente East, Urdaneta, Pangasinan. On August 14, 1994, his sisters, Elvira Baez- Bustamante and Emelinda Baez-Antiado, came to the house because their father, Bernardo P. Baez, complained that accused-appellant made trouble whenever he was drunk. The elder Baez wanted to put up accused-appellant in another house or sleeping quarters.[3] Elvira testified that, in the evening of August 14, 1994, she and her sister Emelinda discussed with their father the latters plan for accused-appellant. After a while, she said, when her father went to his room, accused-appellant, who looked drunk because he was red in the face, ran to the kitchen and got two (2) knives and then went inside their fathers room. Emelinda followed accused- appellant inside the room. Elvira then heard Emelinda scream. When Elvira went inside the room, she saw accused-appellant stabbing her father saying, Pinalalayas mo ako! (You are sending me away!). The elder Baez fell in a sitting position at a corner of the room. Elvira said she tried to stop accused-appellant from inflicting further injuries on her father, even as she pleaded with him that He is our father. But as Elvira tried to take the knives from accused-appellant,
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